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Soccer is much more than a game, or even a way of life. It is a perfect window into the cross-currents of today's world, with all its joys and its sorrows. In this remarkably insightful, wide-ranging work of reportage, Franklin Foer takes us on a surprising tour through the world of soccer, shining a spotlight on the clash of civilizations, the international economy, and j Soccer is much more than a game, or even a way of life.

In this remarkably insightful, wide-ranging work of reportage, Franklin Foer takes us on a surprising tour through the world of soccer, shining a spotlight on the clash of civilizations, the international economy, and just about everything in between.

How Soccer Explains the World is an utterly original book that makes sense of our troubled times. Get A Copy. Paperback , pages. Published July 5th by Harper Perennial first published June 29th More Details Original Title. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about How Soccer Explains the World , please sign up. Is his book a good read for a soccer fan, or is it too outdated or does it mainly focus on globalization?

Majkelo Chmielewski This is a perfect book for anyone interested in Football and in Sociology. Since I red it , I am giving examples from the book in lot of different dis …more This is a perfect book for anyone interested in Football and in Sociology.

Since I red it , I am giving examples from the book in lot of different discussions. It's a very interesting, extraordinary point of view over football. I really recommend it! See 2 questions about How Soccer Explains the World…. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Shelves: ophelia-s-library , non-fictions-others. Warning: next writing is written under the state of cracking emotion.

Any confusions and flaws it affects should not be taken for granted. And it's not a review! What is so special about football, that it pains so much when you lost and taking you so high when matches are won.

And it kills you to see your beloved club is brought down by ignorant fools who know nothing about the game of passion. Right now, when I'm writing this, I was torn in two out of madness. The real me is always a Blue and that Warning: next writing is written under the state of cracking emotion. The real me is always a Blue and that's why I easily get attached to Arema. I was raised in various cities, due to my father's dedication to serve the church, and never really had a city or town to call home.

Until I went to Malang, East Java. I love the city, found best friends who I proudly nicknamed soulmates, got myself an adopted family, speak the language as if I was born to do that, and to know Arema who embodies everything I wished from football.

I should be happy, well the Blue me wants to dance all nights and telling the world, 'Hey look here, at this amazing club, practically a self-funded club without begging from the regional state's budget and collectively raised fund for the team's operational vehicles!

Watch this Real Madrid, we the fans are the real Arema the blood of this club, not like the plasticos you're signing with multi-million euros but for which major thropy? Did you see this Chelsea? No Abramovich with his magic wand to exploit wells and cashing money as if they were leaves throughout the fall season! I still remember the day when we're looking at a group of people holding scarfs up, singing their hearts out as if there's no tomorrow.

What amazed us most was that the team was lost! Our first encounter with Liverpool FC who embodies everything I know about football. Liverpool FC won trophies, has a long history with a list of great managers and players, and superb fans who always be there not only in great nights but also in the lows when everything shattered into pieces, notably Heysel and Hillsborough tragedies. Then two businessmen who aware of nothing regarding the history nor understand the passion that binds the club to the fans came along with their blatant lies.

Since their arrival, they're bleeding the club dry. The board more likely showing him the door without goodbye nor thank you. The great gaffer since Shankly and Paisley is finally worn down by the infights or civil war according to Oliver Kay, a respected football journalist.

I don't know why Aurelio leaves the club, probably he didn't want to be associated with LFC with such devastated state anymore. So who do we have left? Only Jamie Carragher, who sharply stated, "If anyone doesn't want to be here, no problem. No-one is bigger than Liverpool Football Club. People always talk about players leaving and saying 'this is the end of Liverpool'.

No chance. Better players than the ones we have now have left and we have replaced them. View all 50 comments. The right book at the right time. I'm not a big soccer fan but I love the World Cup. I couldn't pick out a Chelsea from a Real Madrid player in a police lineup but every four years, with the help of and the Guardian World Cup podcast, I will shamelessly bluff my way through conversations about things like Neymar's theatrics, strengths and weaknesses of VAR and whether England has the easier side of the draw.

Foer mostly talks about club sides as opposed to national teams but I thought it w The right book at the right time. Foer mostly talks about club sides as opposed to national teams but I thought it was fascinating. He even has a somewhat convincing explanation for why soccer has not taken off in the USA.

View 1 comment. Apr 07, Jim rated it really liked it Recommends it for: anyone who knows that it is really called football. Shelves: footballers , non-fiction. First of all, it's played with the feet, but I'll call it "soccer" even though it pains me to do so. Like the author, I too am a soccer geek and a mediocre player. I was a much better coach. The title promises more than the book delivers, but titles are often the work of publishers' promotion departments.

It's a minor quibble. The book does a good job of showing how soccer is intertwined with issues of ethnic and sectarian identity, class conflict, politics and culture.

It does this in a ligh First of all, it's played with the feet, but I'll call it "soccer" even though it pains me to do so. It does this in a light, entertaining way, giving out facts in small doses. One of my favorite parts of the book was where Foer tried to explain why Americans hate soccer. I think that it's true that most American sports fans see it as low-scoring and boring, a game for little kids and women and yuppies, where competition is deemed "bad" and everyone gets trophies.

First of all, two words: pitchers' duel. Second, what's wrong with kids playing sports they actually enjoy? Third, what are you, a bunch of misogynists? Fourth, yuppies?

Have you been to an NBA game lately? As for the "everyone is a winner" mentality, that has less to do with soccer and more to do with American society. I think the larger reason that Americans tend to dislike soccer has to do with American attitudes toward the world. We expect the world to like what we like and do what we do, and it disturbs us when they have their own ideas.

Some Americans don't like soccer for the same reason that P. O'Rourke says Americans don't like foreign policy: because Americans don't like foreigners. If you hate soccer, this book probably won't change your mind. If you do like soccer, you'll probably like the book. Although soccer may not explain globalization, the way a group of people relate to the sport can illustrate how they relate to the world.

Jan 04, David rated it it was ok Shelves: sports , non-fiction. The title is completely misleading. There is no theory about globalization and soccer is not explaining the world at all. That out of the way, what Foer does is provide a series of vignettes or showing examples of how globalization has impacted the game in a few specific examples ranging from the Glasgow Rangers and FC Barcelona to the Iranian and American national teams focusing on changes in the culture of those teams over that last 60ish years.

He provides anecdotes in each chapter that sho The title is completely misleading. He provides anecdotes in each chapter that show how a team's culture has changed or not changed through the globalization of the game. Foer does a good job within each chapter and each chapter is interesting, but he fails to connect all the dots. Basically the only big change in soccer due to globalization is the importing or exporting in the case of Brazil of players from other countries.

These players then sometimes clash with as with the Nigerians on Red Star Belgrade or assimilate into as with Hristo Stoichkov on FC Barcelona the societies in which they now play.

But the society itself doesn't change all the much. The Old Firm Celtics and Rangers in Glasgow is still largely a clash between Protestants and Catholics even though neither team is religiously homogeneous anymore and the Brazilian and Italian systems are still as corrupt as ever.

In short, this is an interesting read more for the explanations of the different local futbol cultures than for any "theory of globalization. View all 4 comments. Mar 13, Lilly rated it really liked it. Foer brother of Jonathan Safran Foer, for those of you keeping track at home puts his pen to the paper to explain world affairs to his american audience through the one lens they might identify with -- sports.

Unfortunately, the sport he chooses is soccer. Which American's don't give a shit about. But guess what? They don't give a shit about world affairs either, so it's a brilliant marriage.

For you curious folk out there, he takes on major questions- racism, gender discrimination, fundamental Foer brother of Jonathan Safran Foer, for those of you keeping track at home puts his pen to the paper to explain world affairs to his american audience through the one lens they might identify with -- sports. For you curious folk out there, he takes on major questions- racism, gender discrimination, fundamentalist Islam, you name it.

But forget the politics. As you whip through the pages you're gonna learn what you need to be a self-respecting soccer fan. That alone is worth the price of admission.

What is a hooligan? Why do people care about Arsenal and Manchester United? What the hell is going on with Italian football?

I thought my eyes were fooling me when I saw this book sitting in the bookstore. I still pinch myself. And to be completely honest, it didn't disappoint, not a bit. It's ectasy, anguish, joy and despair. It's part of our history. It's part of our country. And it will be part of our future. It's theatre, art, war and love. It should be predictable It's a feeling that can't be explained but we spend our lives explaining it.

It's OUR religion. We know how you feel about it. Because we feel the same Well, few years ago, I caught myself l It's ectasy, anguish, joy and despair. Well, few years ago, I caught myself lost in thought after I saw and heard a classic advert about Premiership season football coverage and Sean Bean a movie star whose also known as a Leeds diehard fans who narrated this advert DANG!!! So true, so very true.. For myself I will always considered those words are "holy" because somehow it's reflected my feeling about football.

More importantly in my opinion reflected football as a whole. Not just that, I tempted to tape the advert. And the funny thing is that I can't help get rid the feeling that my life going down the toilet when I find myself video-taping a seconds promo for a TV channel's football coverage.

Buku yang menarik. Terus terang saya tidak terlalu "memperhatikan" aspek2 "globalisasi" yang ada di dalam buku ini. Secara pribadi saya lebih tertarik dengan sepakbola yang diceritakan di buku ini.

Banyak sekali yang tidak saya ketahui semisal cikal bakal derby klasik Old Firm antara Glasgow Rangers vs Glasgow Celtic, bagaimana ribuan orang Irlandia Utara menyerbu Glasgow untuk menyaksikan Derby Glasgow. Trus bagaimana masyarakat Itali yang menggemari statistik tentang sepakbola termasuk statistik wasit.

Terus kompetisi sepakbola di brasil yang carut marut dan banyak klub yang dikelola oleh pemilik2 oportunis yang korup tapi tetap melahirkan bintang2 baru seakan tak ada hentinya, suporter spurs yang memelorotkan celana mereka untuk membalas hinaan dari suporter lawan yah, hal2 unik seperti itulah. Sayangna untuk sepakbola inggris hanya membahas dari sisi holigan dan suporternya aja.

Sayang eyang Fergie ama eMyU nya gak disebut-sebut, pdhl ketika buku ini terbit eMyU telah menjadi sebuah kekuatan baru. Dalam kurun waktu 12 tahun terahir mereka sudah merebut 8 kali juara Premiership. Total sampai saat saat itu pasukan eyang Fergie sudah mengoleksi 15 gelar juara semakin mendekati raja Premiership, Liverpool yang sudah mengoleksi 18 gelar juara.

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